Not much to report on this post. Trevor has had most of the month off so we have just been relaxing and the biggest adventures we've had recently have been about food. It's been nice to kind of lay low and not worry about too much. I guess the main change in our schedules is that I've finally started to contribute to our income!
I started doing some babysitting a little while ago and met some English speaking moms who told me there were several families looking to put their children in dance classes. Guess who has a degree in Dance Education??? Me!!! I decided to start 2 dance classes at the clubhouse in our apartment complex to bring in some extra cash. There aren't that many students in either class but it is definitely still fun and a good learning experience for me to start teaching my own classes. The toughest part is that since it is for any English speaking foreigners in our complex, there is a huge diversity in the students especially in the little kid class. Right now there are 2-4 year olds (anyone who has been in sunbeams should have an idea of what that's like) some of which English isn't even their primary language. To put things lightly, it's been difficult to come up with structured activities to keep each child properly entertained. I take it as a really good learning opportunity. To be honest, in a word, it's been exhausting and I've only done 2 classes! But I am still optimistic about future classes.
Other than that, like I said, our vacation time has mostly been about eating :). We went to a buffet for Valentines weekend where Trevor ate to his heart's content (anyone who knows him knows he LOVES buffets). We also went back to a restaurant we both really enjoyed that serves jjim dark (directly translated to braised chicken). This particular restaurant allows you to customize how you want your meal and we love to have the spicy sauce and cheese on top. They bring it out in a giant pan full of the chicken, some glass noodles, and sweet potato all covered in cheese. Tonight, we decided to go out for dessert (cuz who doesn't love that???) and found a Taiwanese dessert cafe. We got a heaping pile of what I can only describe as really really fine shaved ice. And by fine I mean instantly disappears in your mouth like cotton candy but frozen doesn't even feel like ice type of fine. Ours was blueberry and was accompanied by vanilla ice cream and cheese cake. It was so delicious!!! Our extra income from my babysitting, some tutoring Trevor is doing, and now these dance classes is going to make us fat ;)
Sorry we weren't more entertaining this time! Maybe next post we will have something super important to talk about ;)
P.s. If you have any advice on how to keep 2 year olds entertained in a dance class for more than 1 minute at a time, feel free to mention anything in the comments :D
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